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Ringfort - rath

Sleveen, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Sleveen, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Sleveen
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.78261, -7.23733
SMR number
KK010-016----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the crest of a ridge of hills between the Deen and Gloshia river valleys, in rolling pasture. There are fine views in all directions across and along both valleys and along the ridge of hills. When visited in 1987 it was described as a circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) enclosed by slight earthen bank (overall Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) and an external fosse (Wth c. 5m; D 0.1-0.2m), the latter only indicated by a shallow depression, with an original entrance (Wth c. 2m) at the SE. On the 1947 6-inch OS revision and 25-inch OS map it is indicated as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with an outer bank running from S-W-NW. By 2011 the monument appears to have been levelled (Goggle Earth imagery 4/21/2011).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 13 November 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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